by Conor Broughan, Fiction Editor The hits keep coming for Issue 23.1 contributor Edith Pearlman. After receiving the Pen/Malamud Award and being a National Book Award finalist, Edith Pearlman has won the National Book Critics Circle award for her wonderful collection of new and selected stories Binocular Vision. All of this after publishing “Last Words” … Continue reading Edith Pearlman wins NBCC!

by Conor Broughan, Fiction Editor We here at Sycamore Review were honored to publish Greg Schutz’s beautiful story “You are the Greatest Lake" in Issue 23.1, so we are thrilled that the story has been selected for New Stories from the Midwest 2012 (Indiana University Press), guest edited by Rosellen Brown. The forthcoming New Stories from … Continue reading Congratulations to Greg Schutz!

by Conor Broughan When your kitchen is a mess—a plates-piled-high-in-the-sink, socks-getting-stuck-on-sticky-spots mess—how do you react? If you’re anything like me, a messy kitchen means that you clean up the coffee table in the living room or pick up clothes that have collected at the foot the bed. Rather than tackling dirty dishes, the grime on … Continue reading Grotesque and Lovely: A review of Bonnie Nadzam’s LAMB

by Conor Broughan It’s been a big year for Issue 23.1 contributor Edith Pearlman. In January, Lookout Books published Binocular Vision, a career spanning collection of new and selected stories. In June, she received the prestigious Pen/Malamud Award by the Pen/Faulkner Foundation. Today, the National Book Foundation announced that Binocular Vision is finalist for the National … Continue reading Edith Pearlman’s BINOCULAR VISION a National Book Award Finalist

by Conor Broughan Patricia Henley, a faculty member in the Purdue creative writing program, has a new collection of short stories Other Heartbreaks that will be published on October 11, 2011. She recentlywrote a post on the Glimmer Train website about her publishing experience for this book. Robert Olen Butler called Henley’s new collection “splendid” … Continue reading Patricia Henley’s OTHER HEARTBREAKS